Program:
Fugue and the Sensitive Style:
The Music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his Sons. A selections from the Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080, and works by J. C. Bach, W. F. Bach, and C.P.E. Bach.

Pianist and Early Keyboard performer Michael Tsalka has won numerous prizes and awards in Europe, the U.S.A., the Middle East and Latin America. A versatile musician, he performs  repertoire from the early Baroque to our days on the harpsichord, fortepiano, clavichord, square piano, chamber organ and modern piano. Tsalka, born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, obtained his  Bachelor’s degree from Tel-Aviv University and continued  his studies in Germany and Italy. In 2001, he received a piano solo diploma from the Scuola Superiore Internazionale del Trio di Trieste, where he studied with Dario di Rosa. From 2002-2008, he studied at Temple University under Joyce Lindorff, Harvey Wedeen, and Lambert Orkis.

His recent engagements include performances at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Forbidden City Hall in Beijing, Bellas Artes Theater in Mexico City, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, St. Denis Festival in Paris, Der Gasteig in Munich, Beethoven House in Bonn, the Volksbuehne Hall in Berlin, the Jerusalem Music Center, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and interviews and live performances in Hong Kong, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Berlin, Munich, St. Petersburg, Beijing, Stockholm, Helsinki, Auckland, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Jerusalem.

Dr. Tsalka has released 15 CDs for Naxos, Grand Piano, Ljud & Bild (Stockholm), Brilliant Classics (Amsterdam) and Paladino (Vienna). His current and future recording projects include CDs dedicated to keyboard works by J. S. Bach, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Johann Baptist Wanhal, Carl Dittersdorf, Ferdinand Ries, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Viktor Ullmann, Leonardo Coral, and Yehezkel Braun. Together with

Dr. Angelica Minero Escobar, he is preparing a critical edition of Türk’s 30 keyboard sonatas for Artaria Editions in New Zealand.

A committed educator, Dr. Tsalka has presented 70 master classes and lecture-recitals in academic institutions and conferences around the world.  

Currently, he is a visiting professor at Celaya Conservatory in Guanajuato, Mexico, co-artistic director of the Nordic Historical Keyboard Festival in Kuopio, Finland, and the artistic director of the Geelvinck Fortepiano Festival in The Netherlands. Michael Tsalka currently resides in Spain.